Dianne Halliday gave her audience a wonderful conspectus of French organ music for Christmas, mainly. but not exclusively, from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It was a pity that the composers’ dates were not in the printed programme. However, I was able to find all except one, in a variety of sources, but chiefly Wikipedia.
The opening piece was ‘Chant du Roi René’ from Les Livres de Noëls by Alexandre... read more